No vaccine for arrogance…

The anti-vax pinheads are a group I find particularly annoying. My aunt had polio. My grandparents’ generation saw the Salk vaccine for the wonder that it is, and saw polio for the danger it is. Have we forgotten so much so quickly?

When polio was something thatYour friends and family got,Damn right you’d wait in line to getThat magic-seeming shot.

When infant graves were commonplace,Each parent knew the cost;A victim of our own success,Perspective has been lost.

But now that science gives our livesMore health and fewer pains,True geniuses like Salk give wayTo Trumps with shit for brains.

Hell, yes. I remember waiting in line in the hot summer for hours to get that vaccine. I was young, but not too young to have the almost palpable relief and excitement and happiness of all those parents (mostly mothers, of course) impress itself very deeply on me.

Thank you, all of you. I suppose this is only one part of the argument, actually. This is the “what they are trying to give up” part; there is also the evidence that the “dangers” they are trying to avoid are figments of their deranged imaginations.